Francis Davies

a Glamorganshire man born, became a Student of Jes. Coll. an. 1628, aged 17 years, took the degr. in Arts, and was made Fellow of the said House. About that time entring into holy Orders, he became beneficed in Wales, and in 1640 he was admitted to the reading of the Sentences. Afterwards suffering much for the Kings Cause, lived as opportunity served, and was involved in the same fate as other Royalists were. But being restored to what he had lost, after his Maj. restauration, he was actually created D. of D. in the beginning of the year 1661, being then Archd. of Landaff in the place of Tho. Prichard. In. 1667 he was made Bishop of Landaff on the death of Dr. Hugh Lloyd, paid his homage on the 4 of Sept. the same year, and about that time was consecrated. He concluded his last day in the latter end of sixteen hundred seventy and four, and was buried,1674/5. as I have been informed by some of the Fellows of Jes. Coll, in the Cath. Ch. at Landaff. In the said See of Landaff succeeded Dr. Will. Lloyd sometimes of S. Johns Coll. in Cambr, consecrated thereunto on the 18 of Apr. 1675, where sitting till the death of Dr. Henshaw, he was translated to Peterborough, and confirmed therein 17 of May 1679. Besides the beforemention’d Franc. Davies, was another of both his names the e in Davies excepted, but before him in time, author of A Catechism, wherein is contained the true grounds of the articles of the Christian Faith contained in the Lords Prayer and Creed, &c. Lond. 1612. oct. ded. to Mr. Tho. Digges, but whether he was of Oxford, I cannot yet tell. Qu.